Chebyshev rational functions

In mathematics the Chebyshev rational functions are a sequence of orthogonal functions. A rational Chebyshev function of degree n is defined as:

$R_{n}(x)\equiv T_{n}\left({\frac {x-1}{x+1}}\right)$

where $T_{n}(x)$ is a Chebyshev polynomial of the first kind.

Properties

Many properties can be derived from the properties of the Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind. Other properties are unique to the functions themselves.

Recursion

$R_{n+1}(x)=2\,{\frac {x-1}{x+1}}R_{n}(x)-R_{n-1}(x)\quad \mathrm {for\,n\geq 1}$

Differential equations

$(x+1)^{2}R_{n}(x)={\frac {1}{n+1}}{\frac {d}{dx}}\,R_{n+1}(x)-{\frac {1}{n-1}}{\frac {d}{dx}}\,R_{n-1}(x)\quad \mathrm {for\,n\geq 2}$

$(x+1)^{2}x{\frac {d^{2}}{dx^{2}}}\,R_{n}(x)+{\frac {(3x+1)(x+1)}{2}}{\frac {d}{dx}}\,R_{n}(x)+n^{2}R_{n}(x)=0$

Orthogonality

Defining:

$\omega (x)\equiv {\frac {1}{(x+1){\sqrt {x}}}}$

The orthogonality of the Chebyshev rational functions may be written:

$\int _{0}^{\infty }R_{m}(x)\,R_{n}(x)\,\omega (x)\,dx={\frac {\pi c_{n}}{2}}\delta _{nm}$

where $c_{n}$ equals 2 for n=0 and $c_{n}$ equals 1 for $n\geq 1$ and $\delta _{nm}$ is the Kronecker delta function.

Expansion of an arbitrary function

For an arbitrary function $f(x)\in L_{\omega }^{2}$ the orthogonality relationship can be used to expand $f(x)$:

$f(x)=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }F_{n}R_{n}(x)$

where

$F_{n}={\frac {2}{c_{n}\pi }}\int _{0}^{\infty }f(x)R_{n}(x)\omega (x)\,dx$

Particular values

$R_{0}(x)=1\,$

$R_{1}(x)={\frac {x-1}{x+1}}\,$

$R_{2}(x)={\frac {x^{2}-6x+1}{(x+1)^{2}}}\,$

$R_{3}(x)={\frac {x^{4}-28x^{3}+70x^{2}-28x+1}{(x+1)^{4}}}\,$

References

Guo, Ben-yu (2002). "Chebyshev rational spectral and pseudospectral methods on a semi-infinite interval" (PDF). Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng. 53: 65–84. doi:10.1002/nme.392. Retrieved 2006-07-25. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)